From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, Ed Cryer wrote:   
      
   > Ed Cryer wrote:   
   >> oldernow wrote:   
   >>> How do you distinguish reality from faith in reality?   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Simple! It's the best type available.   
   >>   
   >> Ed   
   >   
   > Follow the footprints. Use your common sense; or, at least, common senses.   
   > Ever wonder why we have them? They help in the battle against predators;   
   > sabre-toothed tigers amongst them. And now we are at the top of the   
   > food-chain, and we eat the cattle and stuff that ain't got the nous to beat   
   > us.   
   >   
   > This world was created. Out of a Big Bang! Wham, and all those atoms and   
   > immutable laws came. Where did they come from? Well, here's my best   
   > explanation.   
   > In a universe that was spawned from another universe, that came from another   
   > (right back to Aristotle's Unmovable Mover) there was a school, and a class   
   > of 10-year-olds got homework; design a world. And most did. There were a few   
   > paradises amongst them, some gifted kids; but our creator was bottom of the   
   > class, and his teacher told him he'd created a monstrosity, and he should   
   > delete it at once. But he didn't. He took it home, left it running under his   
   > bed, and here we are.   
   >   
   > Prove it? No way! It can't be done. But bishop George Berkeley knew that when   
   > he wrote his books. And, as far as I know, not even Isaac Newton could prove   
   > the existence of reality. But he sure revealed a stack of its workings.   
   >   
   > Ed   
      
   Another way to go about it, is the agnostic way. Reality is what is. It is   
   what happens to you. You have no choice but to continue to exist through   
   time and space.   
      
   Therefore, we don't need to prove reality. The only thing that matters is   
   if someone manages to disprove it, or even better, prove that something   
   else besides reality exists. Only then do we need to care.   
      
   Until such a proof is presented, we can be completely agnostic about the   
   question and proceed with empiricism.   
      
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